A view of the Taj Mahal hotel, which was one of the sites of the Mumbai terror attack, in Mumbai, India, Friday, April 10, 2015. A Pakistani court on Thursday, April 9, 2015, ordered the release of the main suspect Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in the 2008 Mumbai attacks for the second time in less than a month, a defense lawyer said. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

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Essential HuffPost

Bollywood baddie Shakti Kapoor, who’s made a career out of lecherousness, has a dutiful publicist determined to make him appear as a sex-symbol.

India’s criminal justice system has been unable yet to make Salman Khan sing, but the 49-year-old superstar, whose vocals were last heard in 'Hangover', will be lending his voice to a song from Nikhil Advani's 'Hero', a remake of the 1983 Subhash Ghai movie.

Last week, all hell broke loose when the trailer for Zack Snyder's upcoming superhero film 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' was leaked online. But here’s another, related trailer that tops even that.

Main News

Supreme Court Justice J.S. Khehar decided on Tuesday that there would soon be a final decision on whether members of the commission, constituted to address the new judicial appointments law, were fit to pronounce verdict while appearing disinterested.

Once miffed with government interference over the selection of IIT directors, nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar appears to have restored his relations with the human resource development ministry and has joined two fresh search panels to scout directors.

Maharashtra today junked an ambitious urban land use and redevelopment plan after five years of consultations with all stakeholders. Critics have said that the plan envisaged Mumbai’s future as a fictional, gloomy ‘Gotham city.’

Delhi’s air is consistently more toxic than that in Beijing, says a US study that has compared two years’ worth of data from both cities. The Indian capital’s air was “healthy”, according to US air quality standards, for just seven days in the last 730, while Beijing hit the mark 58 times.

An analysis of company records by The Indian Express has unearthed a potential conflict of interest in the business holdings of Ankita, a screenplay writer and daughter of former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, to at least three business entities promoted by IPL governing-council chairman Rajeev Shukla’s wife Anurradha Prasad.

Within weeks of GoAir CEO Giorgio De Roni quitting, 30 pilots of the low cost carrier (LCC) have also now put in their papers.

Off The Front Page

The government has dropped the names of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi from two awards, traditionally constituted for propagating Hindi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today advised bureaucrats to not “live like robots” and instead also spend quality time with their families.

Eight Pakistani crew, aboard a boat carrying 232 kgs of narcotics, were arrested in a joint operation by the Indian Navy and Coast Guard off the Gujarat coast.

Chief Justice of India H L Dattu was momentarily baffled by 65-year-old petitioner Gulshan Kumar, who had been declared ‘dead’ six years ago. With a single stroke of his pen, however, Dattu made him ‘alive’ again.

Opinion

Balakrishnan Madhavankutty, in The Hindu, said that Narendra Modi’s jab on “five star activists” is also an opportune moment to debate whether India needs a national accreditation agency for NGOs.

Mukul Kesavan in an obituary for late historian CA Bayly in The Telegraph, says that his great achievement was “… to connect colonial India with its historical antecedents (and) to question settled narratives of political and social change…”

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in The Indian Express, advises the Communist Party of India (M) to “focus (and) come down from its high horse of totalising categories such as neoliberalism and imperialism, which are better tools of analysis than politics…”